United States ex rel. Freeman v. Williams
District Court, S.D. New York
Habeas Corpus. Proceeding by the United States, on the relation of Robert Freeman, against William Williams, to obtain relator’s discharge from an order directing his deportation as an alien seeking to enter the United States and likely to become a public charge.
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Habeas Corpus. Proceeding by the United States, on the relation of Robert Freeman, against William Williams, to obtain relator’s discharge from an order directing his deportation as an alien seeking to enter the United States and likely to become a public charge. The relator was arrested upon a warrant issued by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, charging him with having been found in the United States in violation of law, in that he was an alien and had been convicted or admlttcd having committed, prior to landing, a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude. He was…
1Opinion of the CourtHand, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). If the Secretary did not violate the statute in respect of all three of the three grounds given for his deportation, I have no jurisdiction. The precise limit of the jurisdiction to review tile sufficiency of the evidence I need not consider. At most it can go no further than to inquire whether the conclusion of the authorities was without any evidence whatever to support it. I do not say that the jurisdiction goes so far, but it certainly goes no further.
In the case at bar there was shown ample reason to suppose that the relator was a person of habitual…
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